Ricardo Labarca

Labarca graduated in 2007 from the Academy of Plastic Arts San Alejandro, Havana. In that same year he participated in the artistic creative project “Sketch for an archipelago”, where 7 Cuban artists toured Cuba from one end to the other with creative performance for 3 months and 3 days. After this experience his work began to have a more experimental and artistic aura with the use of natural and recycled materials. With the spectrum of artistic manifestations learned, each work began to be part of the di- alogue in development in each of his series of subsequent works. Several exhibitions in galleries and events as well as personal and collective exhi- bitions and private collections are part of his trajectory until now. Based on a new life experience, these works reflect the connection be- tween the artist and the environment that surrounds him. The coexis- tence and habitation between people and animals, architecture and land- scape, color and climatic seasons. Where the use of materials (recycled and found objects) invites you to interact with a unique experience in each of the works and their development process. As a result, we are faced with multifunctional interactive objects, autonomous pieces. By using found objects and recycled materials from the artist´s environ- ment and daily life, they make each work live a kind of mutation of its own and become a kind of time capsule.